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-Termed by Auguste Comte
-Study of human behaviors as they are affected by social forces and social interactions
-Emerged in Europe in response to changes linked with Industrial Revolution |
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-Agriculture base
-Mechanization required less workers
-Corn Belt Community
-Less jobs people move away |
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| Emerged in the US in the early 1900s during shift from agrarian to an industrial economy |
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| The Sociological Imagination |
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-The ability to see how social forces, and the way society is organized, including institutional arrangements shape life stories
-Enables to distinguish between personal troubles and public issues |
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-First in 1940
-Study of rural and community life immediately following the Great Depression
-How agrarian social and economic systems were giving way to industrialization |
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| Jenkins-Portrait of Rural Life |
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-Image is farming, similar cultures, close-knit communities
-There is much more diversity |
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-1940- very diverse crop and livestock
-Largely self sufficient
-majority of crops to feed livestock
-large gardens contribute to family self sufficenty
-Four field rotation
- Hogs, beef, dairy, sheep, poultry |
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-Maize and Soybeans primary crop
-Population declined from 1700 to 1000 in 60 years
-only 40% work in Irwin |
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larger than single person
affect entire group of people |
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-Functionalist Theory
-Solidarity
-Four problematic relationships that lead to suicide |
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-the ties that bind people to one another in society
-Emile Durkheim |
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| Four Relationships that may lead to suicide |
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-By Emile Durkheim
1.Egotistic(The attaching individual to others in society are weak)
2.Altruistic(Individuals have no life of their own and strive to blend in with group to have sense of being)
3.Anomic(state brought on my dramatic changes in economic circumstances)
4.Fatalistic(No hope of change and thus oppressive discipline against which there is no chance of release) |
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-race relations
-racial identity
-social construction of race |
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-Idea of Bourgeoisie(Owners) and Proletariat(laborers) classes
-Conflict Theory |
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| Major force that drives social change |
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-The ties that bind people to one another in
-Emile Durkheim |
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-Limit mistaken generalizations by trying to understand the experiences of others through their eyes
-Sympathetic knowledge
-founded hull house |
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-First hand knowledge gained by living and working among those being studied
-Jane Addams |
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-Chicago community centers to provide services to the poor
-By Jane Addams |
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-Four social action types
-Social action
-Actions people take in response to others |
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Four social actions
Which was Mary? |
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1.Traditional- A goal is pursued because it was pursued in the past(MARY GRIGSBY)
2.Affectional- A goal is pursued in response to an action
3.Value-Rational- A goal is pursued after it has been evaluated in relation to other goals and after consideration of the various means to achieve it
4.Instrumental action(goal rational)- Pursued because it is valued, with no thought of its consequences |
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-Community Economic and Entrepreneurial Development
-To build awareness of entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy
-Get grads to go back and work in their communities |
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| Four Key Focus Areas of ExCEED |
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1.Entrepreneurship/Local business Development
2.Youth Engagement
3.Leadership Development
4.Community Asset Development |
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| Four Key Focus Areas of ExCEED |
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1.Entrepreneurship/Local business Development
2.Youth Engagement
3.Leadership Development
4.Community Asset Development |
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-Persistent Poverty
-Metro/Non-Metro Poverty |
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| -Counties with 20% or more of their population being poor |
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| -Any individual with total income less than an amount deemed to be sufficient to purchase basic needs |
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| a set of principals and definitions that tell how societies operate and how people relate to one another and respond to their surroundings |
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| Manifest Function (Merton) |
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Intended or anticipated effects that part of a society has on order and stability within the society
-Mining |
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| Latent Functions (Merton) |
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Unintended of unanticipated effects that part of a society has on order and stability within the society
-Jobs for minorities |
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| Manifest Dysfunctions (Merton) |
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A segment of societies anticipated disruptions to order and stability
-Population in decline, Infrastructure breakdown |
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| Latent Dysfunctions (Merton) |
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Unintended, unanticipated disruptions to order and stability
-Dependency, Problems in families |
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| Weakness of Functionalist Perspective |
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-Assume all parts of a society serve a function. Not all parts may serve a function when first introduced so a biological analogy falls apart.
-Difficulty accounting for instability.
-Defends Existing social arrangements; justifies the way things are |
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| Automobile and Critique of Functionalism |
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-Automobile not really useful until paved highways were introduced.
-Not the most environmentally advantageous method of transportation.
-Does not account for the net effects of a part of the whole, assumes it contributes to stability and that it is therefore desirable. |
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-How man owes his soul to the company store
-Works for company, then credit to company store |
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-Conflict over scarce and valued resources
-Dominant and Subordinate groups
-Encourages analysis beyond popular expectations |
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| Conflict Perspective Weaknesses |
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-Presents simplistic view of dominant-subordinate groups or relationships
-Exaggerates tension and divisions in society |
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| Symbolic Interactionist Perspective |
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-We learn meanings from others
-Organize life around those meanings
-those meanings are subject to change
-encourages direct, first hand, and extensive analysis |
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| Shared conceptions of what is good and important with regard to conduct, appearance and states of being |
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-Strong communal orientation
-Emphasis on cooperation, fitting into group, not sticking out
-Cooperation and Group work
-Geographical and historical forces shape the character of culture |
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| -written and unwritten rules that specify behaviors appropriate and inappropriate to a particular social situation |
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| Internal bodily sensations that we experience in relationships with other people |
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Norms that apply to the mundane aspects or details of daily life
-Ex. Shoes and slippers, bowing, eating while you walk. |
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| Norms that people define as essential to the well-being of a group |
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| Strain that people from one culture experience when they must reorient themselves to the ways of a new culture |
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| Shock experienced upon returning home after living in another culture |
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| The perspective that a foreign culture should not be judged by the standards of a home culture and that a behavior or way of thinking must be examined in its cultural context |
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A viewpoint that ises ones culture as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways.
-Culture Bound |
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| A type of ethnocentrism in which the home culture is regarded as inferior to a foreign culture |
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-Fewer Farmers
-Weakening AG ECO
-Increasing Urbanization
-Aging Farm Labor Force
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| All physical objects that people have borrowed, discovered, or invented and to which they have attached meaning |
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| Intangible creations or things that we cannot identify directly through the senses |
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-Moci, sweet rice
-Sweet Red beans and Rice for new year
-Tatami flooring in houses
-soft floor |
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